A dad survived his cancer long enough to have a baby when a tumour grew outside his skull.
Mike Hawthorn was diagnosed with grade two meningioma when he was just 26 after a routine eye test. After undergoing surgery in April 2021, his skull failed to fuse together fully with the tumour coming out of this crack in the bone.
This led to it growing on the outside of his skull, and actually relieved the pressure on his brain and extended his life by more than 14 months. This gave enough time for his wife to become pregnant and have a baby in March 2022 but tragically Mike died in the July aged just 33.
